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Firstly, for the record, as far as political beliefs go, mine are quite aligned with the protesting employee here. Having said that, Google is entirely right h
by hannofcart 3y ago
Firstly, for the record, as far as political beliefs go, mine are quite aligned with the protesting employee here.
Having said that, Google is entirely right here. The speaker was not some right wing political wingnut from Israel. He was just another employee of Google who happened to be from Israel. And from all the reports I've read, the talk had nothing to do with Middle East politics.
Heckling a fellow employee giving a speech just because they're from a country whose government you have policy differences with is like picketing a Chinese restaurant in New York to protest China's aggressive posturing in the South China Sea.
- stuaxo 3y agoThat only works if the Chinese restaurant is supplying the Chinese fleet with a lot of their food.
- madaxe_again 3y agoJust another employee of Google who is heading up a surveillance technology project for a government that many view as regressive and oppressive, to put it mildly.
- mc32 3y agoIt’s pretty crazy that you’d have people protest fellow employees because they are from a country you disagree with. Presumably this protestor while employed by Google would protest its founder and major shareholder as well just because his patents were Russian. It used to be you’d keep politics and religion at home and would not bring them into the workplace. On the other hand these companies encouraged activism over the years and they shouldn’t be surprised when it goes off the rails.
- int_19h 3y agoI agree with your first point, but as for the second, you can't "keep politics at home" when your employer goes there first. Which Google did with Project Nimbus.
- howmayiannoyyou 3y agoIf by quite aligned you mean you agree Israel is engaging in genocide then broaden the sources of information you're consuming. You're being manipulated.
- jakupovic 3y agoHe did what he did with the consequences he knew were coming. But, we cannot shame people into not doing anything about things they oppose because they are getting paid by the "bad guys". Do what you want but face the consequences, 'tis life.